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Print version ISSN 1900-3803On-line version ISSN 2539-0279
Abstract
CUJABANTE VILLAMIL, Ximena Andrea and QUINTERO CORDERO, Sara. The responsability to protect: between classical realism and international ethics, an approach to the case of Syria. Entramado [online]. 2020, vol.16, n.1, pp.176-188. ISSN 1900-3803. https://doi.org/10.18041/1900-3803/entramado.1.6086.
The concept of Responsibility to Protect (R2P) has generated various positions being a principle implemented as a tool of the United Nations. In order to understand the application of this humanitarian intervention measure, carry out a review of its background, follow the realistic analysis according to the pillars on which it is based. Later and through the analysis of the case of Syria, strengths and weaknesses of this specific political commitment will be identified for the prevention, timely response and reconstruction of communities in crisis, where civil society is threatened by genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.
Keywords : Responsibility to protect; sovereignty reason of State; realism; humanitarian intervention.